Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1887-02-22

of the Sperry Electric y
Light Company of Chicago, to put
an electric plant here. So far the
contractor has done nothing, and the =,
company he represented has failed.
But this only delavs-it does not de-
feat the electric light. AS soon as
the contractor formally relnquishes
his enterprise, new local company
viii be formed, which will push the
work. Probably the Edison mean
descent light will be used Our cit-
zens feel that this great modern i'm
prorement is within their means, and
Boise City might as well lead in this
III Idaho as we'll as in every other
step IN the march Of improvement
1.-The material for the pioneer his
tory of Idaho has been gathered with
great care by Mr. Chas. Stevenson,
but is not yet written out fer the
publishers. The Society has nos
funds enough in hand to print, and
the small appropriation asked of the
general assembly was lost in the
house. Mr.. Stevenson will preserve
his notes and memoranda till further
action by the Pioneer Society.
Rev. Mr.. Foster, who resided in Boise
many years ago, has organized the
Baptlsts of Bellevue into church
gathered Sunday school, and fitted
= up an old log cabin into a decent
meeting house. Last week he added
a singing class. =. The new code
changes the limit of age for the pay
: ment of poll taxes, so that citizens
). must pay up to the age Of sixty
). years. The limit previously was fifty
d years.
l. IDAHO COUNTY FREE Press: A
a subscriber suggests that we don
l. taffy enough of the old fellows vi
y here. The suggestion is shrewC
IS enough from business stand point
10 but our idea of jousnalism won
sanction its use. We don't use mucl
a. taft in our business, having foun'
at the genuine article of plain vigorou
til English to fill the bill. We keep o
n hand, however, for the use of thos
to who can't do without it, choic
st preparation of vitriolic taffy warrant
1t. ed to equal the best brands Of joul
h. nalistic tafTy in attracting public a
he tention to those fellows who are dyin
n to get their commonplace names il
to print. Our weather proph'
flung away his goose bone last wee
and bought thermometer which /
hung outside our office door one col
morning, and when he went to loo
- for it half an hour later found TIL
- some public spirited individual, fea
- ing the instrument might be injure
nd ''s' N'' -
by exposure to the weather had g
away with it. This accounts for tt
" small number of items on the wealth
" we have this week. George Chr
~ tie froze four toes on his last trip O
~ from Pierce city to Lewiston with t
80 Orc Elmo express. He was out
"'' the storm all night, lost four hors
" and was serenaded by a whole bra
VIZ hand of unsteady inclined wolves.
A COUPLE of the Banner boys Ii
their compass the other night, and
north star being obscured, tn
son steered off in the wrong direction,
lnls nc tween town and More creek, and
the daylight the next morning found tt
NAL they had been circling around
Iibi- Gambrinus District and brought
Or in Lager Beer gulch. The boys W.
, do' duly sober when they slid out III
' 'ruu town at nine o'clock at night, a
e al. when they surveyed the surroundl'
The and found they were in Lager BE
rom No nearer Banner than when II